Spotlight search

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Hi,

year on year, there seems to be the request and now the possibility but yet no howto on how to make spotlight search work.

In theory, the following are needed:

  1. elasticsearch (app available from TrueNAS market)
  2. an index for elasticsearch (fscrawler app available from TrueNAS market)
  3. setting the share to spotlight=yes in the auxsmbconf via cli/sharing smb update
  4. setting the spotlight backend=elasticsearch and elasticsearch:address plus port

My current status is i have 1,3 and fail to connect fscrawler and elasticsearch. I also have no clue on how to add 4 into smb.conf global section permanently.

I fail to find an easy to find community-maintained guide on how to configure the feature that on Synology NAS is requiring an index in Universal Search (one mouse click, essentially).

Am i really the only one looking for this feature to be working? I understand if nobody wants to support it from the TrueNAS team, but shouldn’t the community not care and have at the very least the means to implement it and write a guide about it?

Results from within last year:

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If you don’t limit, you see regular requests throughout the years.

Does anyone know already something and can share?

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just wait until april next year, when official spotlight support lands

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thanks for the hint, really interesting.

However, it seems to me it’s yet another wheel that is reinvented before it is even halfway adopted. What’s wrong about elasticsearch?

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That’s something I can’t answer, I don’t have a need for spotlight so I honestly never bothered to look into it

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Nothing, truesearch appears to use an elasticsearch backend.

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that’s comforting to hear